SALISBURY — For the first 346 minutes of postseason play this fall, the La Salle College High soccer team had been perfect.

Through three Philadelphia Catholic League matches — with one going to penalty kicks — a District 12 title, the first two round of states and the first 76 minutes of Tuesday night’s PIAA Class AAA semifinal match, the Explorers had not been scored upon by any of the seven teams they had faced.

Straight across the match scores, they all showed a “0” for the opposition.

That streak ended Tuesday night against Wilson High, the season also coming to an end at the same time.

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Wilson’s Bryan Fegley headed the ball into net with 3:41 to play in regulation, giving the Bulldogs a 1-0 victory over La Salle.

The Explorers’ season ended at 21-3-1. Wilson, now 25-2-1, will play Upper St. Clair in the Class AAA championship match Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at Hersheypark. Upper St. Clair defeated Delaware Valley, also by 1-0, in the western region.

“You knew coming in that you get to this point in the season against a team like that,” La Salle head coach Bob Peffle said, “that it was going to be a 1-0 game.”

And that first and only goal of the match came with less than four minutes left in the season for the Explorers.

“When you see the ball go in the back of the net, at a time like that, your heart is going to drop,” Explorer senior Jack Dusing said. “It came so late in the game.”

“Unfortunately, it had to end this way. We were so close, yet right now it feels so far away.”

It ended with the Explorers having won a Catholic League and District 12 title for the second year in a row. This year, La Salle also set a record for the program as the first Explorers soccer team to win 20 matches in a single season. This team also registered the first two state tournament wins for the program.

“It stings right now, sure,” Peffle said. “They’re upset because they know this was a game that, with one play here or there, could have gone the other way.”

“We’ve been pretty good over a lot of years at La Salle. We’ve had some terrific teams go through here. (This year’s team) has just set the bar higher than any team before.”

“It will sting. Hopefully in a couple days, they will realize what they have done.”

The chances were there Tuesday to have it continue to Saturday and a state title match. A shot in close midway through the first half went just wide right. Several other opportunities in the second half could not be converted, as well. Meanwhile, Wilson, the third-place team out of District Three, continued to apply the pressure.

Fegley put the cap on the night for Wilson as he found the net.

“When I saw the ball coming at me, my eyes lit up,” Fegley said as the scoring play began to take shape. “Then, when it goes in, that’s the greatest feeling in my life.”

For La Salle, getting to the Class AAA state semifinals, however, cannot be discounted as a significant achievement for a team which appeared to have lost so much from last year’s squad.

“At the beginning of the season, everybody counted us out,” Dusing said. “No one thought we’d even come out of the Catholic League. We proved them wrong.”

“Winning the two titles we did, not a lot of people have done that and we’re pretty proud of what we’ve done.”

That is a feeling the Explorers might not fully understand for a few days.

But they still have to recognize, for the first 346 minutes of the postseason, La Salle had been perfect.